Homayoun Nozary, Claude Piguet, Paul Tissot, Homayoun Nozary, Gérald Bernardinelli, Claude Piguet, Paul Tissot, Robert Deschenaux and Maria-Teresa Vilches
Tridentate aromatic receptors L1–L4 containing the 2,6-bis(benzimidazol-2-yl)pyridine chelating unit are designed to exhibit thermotropic calamitic liquid-crystalline phases; the mesomorphic behaviour is essentially retained in the complex [LuL2(NO3)3].